#xrpledgerpatchesxrpcreationbug
🚨 XRP Ledger Patches XRP Creation Bug 🛡️
🔧 The XRPL disclosed on Oct 9 that it fixed a critical, decade-old bug in its payment engine. The flaw could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the 100B supply cap. 😱
🧠 How did the bug work?
🔹 A payment sweeping through hundreds of order book offers could trigger an integer overflow in the XRP calculation 🔢
🔹 The total wrapped to a much smaller number, while sellers still received the full amounts 📉
🔹 The difference could become newly created XRP 🪙
🔹 Exploiting it required hundreds of deliberately mispriced offers, plus reserves of a few hundred XRP 🧩
📅 Timeline
🟡 Sep 22: Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI report the bug via the bug bounty program 🕵️
🟢 Sep 25: Fix released in xrpld 3.4.1, with over 80% of default UNL validators upgraded within 24 hours ⚡
🔵 Oct 9: Public disclosure ✅
✅ Key facts
🔸 RippleX reproduced the exploit on a standalone server, but found no evidence of exploitation on the mainnet 🔒
🔸 The patch shipped as an emergency release outside the normal amendment vote, so the flaw wasn’t left exposed during a public voting period 🗳️
🔸 A second, lower-severity bug in the Batch feature was also fixed. Batch wasn’t active on the mainnet when it was found 🧱
💡 Takeaway: The bug bounty process worked: reported, reproduced and patched in just 3 days. 🏆 Node operators should make sure they run xrpld 3.4.1 or later. 🖥️
💬 Does this make you more or less confident in XRPL’s security? 🤔👇
#XRP #XRPL #Ripple #RippleX
Not financial advice. DYOR. ⚠️$XRP
🚨 XRP Ledger Patches XRP Creation Bug 🛡️
🔧 The XRPL disclosed on Oct 9 that it fixed a critical, decade-old bug in its payment engine. The flaw could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the 100B supply cap. 😱
🧠 How did the bug work?
🔹 A payment sweeping through hundreds of order book offers could trigger an integer overflow in the XRP calculation 🔢
🔹 The total wrapped to a much smaller number, while sellers still received the full amounts 📉
🔹 The difference could become newly created XRP 🪙
🔹 Exploiting it required hundreds of deliberately mispriced offers, plus reserves of a few hundred XRP 🧩
📅 Timeline
🟡 Sep 22: Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI report the bug via the bug bounty program 🕵️
🟢 Sep 25: Fix released in xrpld 3.4.1, with over 80% of default UNL validators upgraded within 24 hours ⚡
🔵 Oct 9: Public disclosure ✅
✅ Key facts
🔸 RippleX reproduced the exploit on a standalone server, but found no evidence of exploitation on the mainnet 🔒
🔸 The patch shipped as an emergency release outside the normal amendment vote, so the flaw wasn’t left exposed during a public voting period 🗳️
🔸 A second, lower-severity bug in the Batch feature was also fixed. Batch wasn’t active on the mainnet when it was found 🧱
💡 Takeaway: The bug bounty process worked: reported, reproduced and patched in just 3 days. 🏆 Node operators should make sure they run xrpld 3.4.1 or later. 🖥️
💬 Does this make you more or less confident in XRPL’s security? 🤔👇
#XRP #XRPL #Ripple #RippleX
Not financial advice. DYOR. ⚠️$XRP